On 3 September, at the 2025 AFI Annual General Meeting in Swakopmund, Namibia, AFI members endorsed the Swakopmund Call to Action, a network-wide commitment to empowering societies and enabling growth through inclusive finance. 

“We must reframe financial systems as engines of empowerment and sustainable growth,”  

“The Swakopmund Call to Action represents our collective pledge to ensuring that financial systems not only include, but enable,” said AFI Chief Executive Officer, Dr Alfred Hannig. “That involves matching ambition with the resources needed to deliver meaningful change for those currently left behind across generations, communities, and borders.” 

Through the Call to Action, AFI members have committed to: 

• Accelerate Inclusive Growth and Resilience  

• Leverage Digital Finance to Expand Access and Opportunity  

• Strengthen Impact Measurement, Accountability and Evidence-based Policy 

• Foster Livelihoods, Job Creation and Sustainable Enterprise 

• Promote Housing Sustainability and Financial Mobility  

• Call for the Mobilization of Additional Global Resources 

The Swakopmund Call to Action, published on the AFI website, builds on over a decade of collective leadership from the AFI network. It stresses financial inclusion’s role as a pillar of public purpose and value, and its potential to create empowerment, equal opportunity, and shared prosperity.